When Deschutes County’s dog board hit an impasse Tuesday night because of doubt over whether the wrong dog was imprisoned for mauling a woman, there was only one solution: a lineup of the usual suspects, or in this case, suspect dogs.

But after a canine lineup at the Humane Society of Central Oregon on Wednesday, both Joy Stanovich-Brown and the neighbor who rescued her were positive there had been no mistake. Brandy, a 1.5-year-old brindled female boxer who’s been locked up since mid-March, was guilty, they said.

“There’s no question in either of our minds that this is the dog,” Stanovich-Brown said.

The county’s dog control board was set to decide the fate of two dogs — Brandy and a 7-year-old tan-and-white male boxer named Marshall — during a Tuesday night hearing. Both dogs have been at the Humane Society of Central Oregon since mid-March, when Jason Blomgren identified them as the dogs who attacked Stanovich-Brown.

Two boxers fractured Stanovich-Brown’s right ankle, damaged the nerves in her right hand and left lacerations up and down her legs that have yet to heal.

Tuesday’s dog board hearing was meant to decide whether the dogs should be killed — Stanovich-Brown’s preferred alternative — or allowed to live, likely to be surrendered to an animal rescue.

But the dogs’ owner, unlicensed boxer breeder Jean Straight, argued that Brandy was wrongly incarcerated and the guilty female dog was an 8-year-old spayed brindled boxer whose name she wouldn’t spell. The county dog board agreed to postpone its decision until Blomgren and Stanovich-Brown had a chance to look at all of the dogs and identify the culprit.

Blomgren said he was worried about being able to identify the correct dog, but he identified Brandy immediately, he said.

“After all the time that passed, I was concerned about them showing up with a bunch of dogs that looked like Brandy and not being able to tell them apart,” he said. “The minute they brought that dog in, both Joy and I took a step back and it was like we were back there (during the attack).”

With the correct dog identified, the dog board will continue its hearing Monday at 5:30 p.m. in the DeArmond room in the county building.

—  Reporter: 541-633-2160; jshumway@bendbulletin.com